Disappearing TSA Padlocks...

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Atlantean,
my son arrived in the US the other day, and the TSA padlock on his luggage had disappeared (but nothing missing except the padlock)

When traveling as a crew from the US, from every airport we get different instructions. They instruct us depending on the airport to leave luggage open, or not to put a padlock or they´ll break it, or like in LAX where you have to wait until they have decided if they want to open your luggage or not. Of course they always want to open my luggage, so they ask me my code (in front of everybody of course) when they should have the keys to do it, that´s the whole point of having expensive TSA approved padlocks

I´ve stopped long ago trying to find some logic in all this.